The explosion was heard in the Mezze district in Damascus.
A vehicle was detonated, local media reported.
The media reported that it was an assassination attack by the Israeli regime.
Syrian sources said that one person was martyred as a result of a car explosion in the vicinity of a place where a funeral had been held for Martyr Yahya Al-Sinwar in Mezze District.
It is possible that planted explosives were the cause of the car explosion.
The security forces tightened security around the area where the car explosion occurred near the "Golden Mezze" hotel.
Representative of Islamic Jihad in Syria said "In today's attack of the Zionist regime on Damascus, neither the secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement nor any of the members of the movement were targeted."
MNA